Of Frogs and Fatwas

Little Green Freakshow Watch: Charles Johnson runs selectively-edited footage in a post entitled, “Glenn Beck: Frog Killer.” Beck responds to the controversy, during which he states the title of Johnson’s post. The conclusion? “Glenn Beck Lies About LGF.” Honestly, at this point what can you say to somebody like Charles Johnson, aside from either “go to hell” or “please seek psychiatric help”?

As to the idea that McCain-backed liberalism wouldn’t be opposed to the degree Obama-backed liberalism is currently: I think there’s probably truth to that at the congressional level, but not at the grassroots. How far did George W. Bush get on Harriet Miers, amnesty, or the United Arab Emirates deal?

I like Glenn, but I really don’t think so – there were many among the pundits who gave Bush a pass on his big-govt. tendencies since he was fighting terror, defending life and cutting taxes, and some of the talkers might be giving McCain a pass today. But like I said, when he tried to impose amnesty, the country rose up and killed it. Same with Harriet Miers and the UAE. Maybe the tea parties wouldn’t be *quite* as big, but if McCain were pushing this crap today, there’d still be major opposition – especially considering that most Republicans hate McCain way more than Bush, and have for years.

What surprises me most about Glenn’s argument, I think, is how it implicitly suggests the protests are insincere and motivated primarily by partisanship — which I very much doubt he meant to do.

"We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us."
- Thomas Jefferson, 1775

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